The organizers plan on presenting the petition to the U.K. government at 10 Downing Street.

Amazon has in the past been accused of avoiding local tax obligations by the U.K. government. Speaking before an official committee in late 2012, Amazon's spokesman was lambasted when he could not explain to MPs exactly who owned the U.K. wing of Amazon and could not detail revenues generated in the British part of the business. The same committee criticized Starbucks and Google for similar tax-dodge tactics which involved shipping products cheaply to U.K. consumers, but headquartering the business elsewhere in Europe.

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People need to quit crying. As if tax should exist in the first place. I am fired up about all these people who can't adapt to business. In my state of Arizona, they just started requiring amazon to charge tax, which is only done in 9 states so far but I'm sure more people will try to get a piece of the cake they didn't earn.